While it might not be the long lost city of Atlantis, scientists have uncovered massive chunks of rock that seem to be the remnants of submerged tectonic plates deep within the ... of the mantle about ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

The main engine behind the dripping (shown in the image above) is the Farallon Plate—an oceanic plates that’s been subducting under the North American Plate for 200 million years, and has ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Explore how North America is changing as its deep cratonic root thins and pieces are dripping into the Earth's mantle.

The key role of an ancient oceanic plate The Farallon plate, which disappeared about 200 million years ago, continues to surprisingly influence North American geology. Though nearly completely ...

Cratonic thinning, a phenomenon geologists think happened hundreds of millions of years ago, appears to be taking place far beneath researchers’ feet. Earth’s continents have regions of very old and ...

For example, the North China Craton lost its deepest root layer millions of years ago. What makes ... deduce that the Farallon Plate, an oceanic tectonic plate that has been subducting under North ...